Improvement in gig-saddle trees



G.. THEOBALD. Gig Saddle-Tree.

No. 201,132. Patentedwlarch12,1878.

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GEORGE THEOBALD, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHTTO CHAS. B. SMITH AND BENJAMIN A. BOURN, OF HART- FORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN GIG-SADDLE TREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Fatent No. 201.132, dated March12, 1878; application filed November 1-9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE THEOBALD, of Newark, in the county of Essex,State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful 11nprovement inGig-Saddle Trees, which improvement is fully set forth in the followingspecitication and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a planview. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section. Fig. 3 is an edge view. Fig. 4shows a form of cutting the skirt; and Figs. 5, 6, 7 and S are views ofa modified form of the invention, showing the' terret plate removable.

The object of my invention is to so construct a saddle-tree that thesection of it in the vicinity of the terret, and forming a terret-plate,

- shall project above the plane of the frame, up

through the skirt or the top piece of the saddle, and in sight, and besuitably finished, and become an additional element of utility andornamentation, and having a recess on the under side of it, with an openlower end, to provide a convenient place for connecting the back-strapwith the saddle, and, withal, providing for adjusting and changing theterret or back-strap after the saddle is completed.

With this in view, I construct the frame A of metal, with a raisedplate, C, so that it appears in sight when the saddle is nished, andforms a bed or seat for the terret H 5 and this plate has a recess, B,on its under side, with a bar, D, across the lower end and an opening inthe end, so that into the recess over the bar a section, E, of the skirtF may be slipped, and over this section, in the recess, the end of theback-strap G having in it the nut a is slipped, so that the terret maylbe screwed into position, with the shank turning in the nut; or it maybe changed or repaired, or the back-strap be changed after the saddle isiinished, and Without any taking apart.

In some cases, for convenience in manufacture or use, it may bedesirable to make this plate C removable, and this does not aect thegeneral principle of my invention, as stated above, for, whether fixedor removable, the plate having the recess stands out to sight above oron a level with the skirt, and receives the back-strap below.

When made removable, the plate may be slipped through an aperture in theframe A from the lower side, and the iianges be fitted to the under sideof the frame, as seen in Fig. 7 or it may be fitted onto the upper sideof the frame, (see Fig. 8,) and the ange on either side of the plate mayrest on or be riveted to the frame direct, or with the skirtintervening. This plate raised up to sight becomes an added element ofnish for a saddle, besides greatly improving the saddle-tree inconstruction and use. Therefore,

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The saddle-tree having the terret-plate C, constructed as described, andadapted to pro ject through the skirt above the plane of the frame A, sothat the upper surface shall be visible, and having a recess on itsunder side for the reception of the back-strap G, sub stantially as andfor the purposes specified.

GEORGE THEOBALD.

Witnesses HORACE HARRIS. GEORGE E. TRAsK.

